Media pretty excited about Palin’s new “reality show”

posted at 8:06 pm on March 4, 2010 by Allahpundit

A nice example of how the press’s desire to believe the worst about Palin leads them to get things wrong. Step one: The Hollywood Reporter reports that she’s working on a “Planet Earth”-type documentary about Alaska for which cameras will follow her and her family around. Step two: Media outlets like Reuters pick up the news of a “reality show,” leading sites like Mediaite to wet their pants at the thought of the right’s blue-collar hero appearing in the sort of garish, low-rent, “Osbournes”-esque spectacle they’ve always imagined for her. Step three: The truth comes out.

The former governor, Mark Burnett (“Survivor,” “Expedition Africa,” “Eco-Challenge”) and Robert Barnett are in L.A. this week meeting with network heads about a documentary about Alaska. A source close to Palin says it is NOT a reality show of any sort, and NOT about her family, as some Hollywood media have speculated. It is about the people, geography, wildlife and wonders of Alaska. The source reports “great interest” in it from the nets. Meetings are yesterday and today with SIX networks.

In other words, it’s a “reality show” the way National Geographic specials are “reality shows.” Meanwhile, there’s a new scandal brewing: She and her chillbilly hordes descended upon an Oscar gift suite “like locusts,” grabbing everything their grubby little hick hands could handle. That’s step two of the scandal; step three is that she made a $1,700 donation to the Red Cross while she was there and, according to Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times, donated the swag she picked up to charity. As for the accusation that she wouldn’t let anyone on the scene take her picture, see C4P about that.

Is Obama smarter than Palin? I’ve yet to see grades, papers, IQ, etc……He can’t manage without a teleprompter, and Andy Stern with George Soros pulling his strings. For all I know, he may be an affirmative action idiot…Go Sarah……

Asto whether or not she was picked for her looks, it’s not as if “journalists” were trying to guess whether that was a phone or a boner in her pants, sweetie. Or like there was a billboard of her posing like a JC Penney catalog model above a Red Lobster in Times Square. Or topless on vacation in HI.

Couric: When it comes to establishing your worldview,I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you read regularly read before you were tapped for this, to stay informed and to understand the (overtalk) world?

Palin: I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press for the media, I mean…

Couric, Like what ones specifically? I’m curious that you…

Um, all of ’em, any of ’em that um have been in front of me over all these years, um…

The question was reiterated three times giving her a chance to name ONE newspaper she reads on a regular basis for heaven’s sake! Like I said, her intro the nation was a disaster that destroyed any chance of her ever taking any national office.

Really? Who? I haven’t heard that she has a speechwriter in her inner circle. Link?

OF COURSE she has a speechwriter. You think the woman who came off as a dimwit with a fool like Couric has, in the span of a bit over a year, somehow become a great orator? Hell, her facebooking is nothing but a list of GOP talking points and some over the top rhetoric added in that she can get away with, as she has nothing to lose currently being little more than a pundit and celebrity.

Yeah, and Obama, who can’t utter his own thoughts without a prompter present does a fantastic speech when scripted. That proves nothing. She can give a decent speech. I know that’s what I look for her in a leader. Can’t name a single newspaper or magazine that affects her worldview, but by gosh, she can read lines in a screen!

If Obama’s intro to the nation was as bad as Palin’s, we’d ALL be attacking him as a dunderhead. Double standard tho, it’s the Palin-messiah.

I think they’re both fools with no substance. Neither had the relevant experience, know how, or common sense for national office. I’m simply an equal opportunity basher. No free rides for Ms. I talk all folksy to try to connect with people(when Hillary used her phony accent, I badmouthed her too).

The more the left pushes against the exponential growth of their Palin fear, the stronger it becomes and the more they must seek to define the bogeyman, as if that somehow diminishes her power. They must contain her by giving her labels.

Every sighting, real or imagined, must be reported, analyzed, defined and countered. The arrogance of victory has given way to the knell of an approaching menace that wields a powerful talisman.

Couric: When it comes to establishing your worldview,I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you read regularly read before you were tapped for this, to stay informed and to understand the (overtalk) world?

Palin: I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press for the media, I mean…

Couric, Like what ones specifically? I’m curious that you…

Um, all of ‘em, any of ‘em that um have been in front of me over all these years, um…

Yeah, except I didn’t dictate all of that conversation. she went on and asked her to specify any magazine or newspaper, and Palin was simply at a loss for words to give a single example.

Couric gave her three chances to answer a simple question that anyone should have known would have gotten them hammered (you can’t answer a question as to what newspapers or magazines you read regularly?!) But, just as Palin stupidly wrote talking points on her hand, seemingly unaware that she’d take a beating on it, or that it would solidy in the minds of many that she’s sort of a bimbo, she just doesn’t get the image she portrays to all but her adoring fans.

I liked her at first, until every time she opened her mouth she made a fool of herself. Then I realized she was clueless and had no business as VP let alone anything higher. I voted for her and McCain as a lesser of two evils, so to speak, but I lost all respect for her when she quit her job (with the dumbest, lamest excuse EVER given), and she keeps making me dislike her with her naive and silly choices.

TheBlueSite, don’t worry. She isn’t going to run for anything. She wants to contribute to the defeat of Democrats and make some money while shes at it. Its funny how the Dims made her more partisan than she would have been if she had stayed Governor of Alaska in near obscurity.

I liked her at first, until every time she opened her mouth she made a fool of herself. Then I realized she was clueless and had no business as VP let alone anything higher. I voted for her and McCain as a lesser of two evils, so to speak, but I lost all respect for her when she quit her job (with the dumbest, lamest excuse EVER given), and she keeps making me dislike her with her naive and silly choices.

TheBlueSite on March 4, 2010 at 11:23 PM

Yeah, she’s really gone downhill hasn’t she? I can’t believe she dares to even exist at this point.
s/

I can understand not liking her as a politician and you can disagree with her decisions, but the fact is that people come out and defend her in droves because none of the “palin scandals” has held any water. They hate her just for existing. So if you’re going to come here and bash her at least qualify it with something other than the “quitter” meme.

But, just as Palin stupidly wrote talking points on her hand, seemingly unaware that she’d take a beating on it, or that it would solidy in the minds of many that she’s sort of a bimbo, she just doesn’t get the image she portrays to all but her adoring fans.

TheBlueSite on March 4, 2010 at 11:23 PM

Funny, I saw that as impressive that she could give an impromptu speeech from just a few words on her hand.

Couric gave her three chances to answer a simple question that anyone should have known would have gotten them hammered (you can’t answer a question as to what newspapers or magazines you read regularly?!)

TheBlueSite on March 4, 2010 at 11:23 PM

Couric gave her three chances? She was barely staying on at CBS, and she’s better known for her sweater puppies than her hard-hitting journalism. I’m surprised she isn’t popping out of cakes and giving the weather.

For the record, Palin had written newspaper editorials long before she met The Perky One. “Lipstick on a pitbull” came from an editorial about Gov. Frank Murkowski that helped her defeat him in a primary. Think about that. Defeated an incumbent governor with ties to Alaskan politics going back to the state’s founding. Sarah Palin was just “valley trash” and went on become Alaska’s first woman Governor.

She and her band of backwoods Appalachian Amazons hunt down and eliminate two clucking canoeloads of twit-ish Congressional fact-finders on a freebie “junket” down a river that they want to remove all the dams from, –which would put the bow-hunting babes’ family farms 200 feet under water.

A Harry Reid look-alike plays bango.

A frozen-faced, Pelosi-esque gargoyle has a mirror built into her paddle to check her eyebrows.

A posthumous Murtha double can float by in the backround of one scene dressed in a burnoose (for a little Abscam homage)